Usually, organizations would want to manage all of then from a single interface and keep the devices locked down. Chromebooks usually won’t allow you to tamper with the OS in any way. (not easily, anyways)

I mean, you can’t have kids playing video games on a school-issued laptop in the back of the classroom, right?

Plus, only a large corporation could even provide the device support like repairs and stuff. Unless small companies can manage to provide support for schools around the country (or even the world, depending on how large they want to expand), for the mean time, its seems like Chromebooks have won. 🤷‍♂️

more like a rap sheet

Don’t have anything political or religious stuff on your phone.

Encrypt and upload those stuff to a Non-US cloud account, then delete them all from your phone. If you want to be extra safe, after you upload all the sensitive materials to a cloud account, make a separate back up of you non-sensitive data, then wipe your phone and then restore. Any traces of sensitive political stuff should be gone, since modern phones would delete the encryption key tied to the old data. Make it look as “normal” as possible. Keep your photos on their, pets, family photos, everything you’re fine with the government seeing (so, nothing political).

And make sure you have your documents, take photos of all of them and back up to cloud. If you were born outisde of the US, the burdon of proof of Citizenship apparantly lies on the claimant. Even if you were born in the US, still have documents ready.

If its non-essential travel, like tourism, I’d suggest just not cross the US border (neither in or out) until times are safer. I’d only consider exiting the US border if you are planning leaving permanently, otherwise, just don’t cross the border.

There are plenty of places within the country that you can visit without getting caught uo with the border shenanigans. (But please do not travel to a republican jurisdiction)

I’m this close to quitting my job so I don’t have to go.

So, this is work travel? Oof, good luck. Have your documents ready and you should be fine.

Act nice, Don’t argue with the border agents, you can’t win a confrontaton with them. If anything goes wrong, your only chance to win is in court (and hopefully, the rule of law hasn’t completely collapsed)

TLDR: Just delete all sensitive data and you can go ahead and consent to searches without worrying, they won’t be finding anything.

BFU and AFU doesn’t matter if the authorites don’t obey laws.

You can refuse all you want, they’ll just jail you for refusing.

The UK already jail people for refusing to unlock their devices. Now with a president of the US who does not respect the rule of law, the same, or worse, will happen.

Just don’t have anything political on your phone, let them search all they want, there’s nothing there.

Keep any such materials on a Non-US cloud account, in encrypted format, without any personally identifiable information on that account. Hopefully you access them through VPN/Tor to make it difficult for them to determine the existence of such accounts.

I mean, its possible.

For example, fascism is described as 38.8974,-77.0374 (2025-01-20T12:00:00-05:00 — Present)

What’s a streaming platform?

glances at thepiratebay[dot]org 😎

Law enforcement is “communist” then, lets go abolish the police 😏

Verdict: PET ME HOOMAN 😿

And my axes! (as in 2 “ax”, not plural of axis)

Tbf, you shouldn’t take news from a comedian.

They are meant to entertain, not inform. If they side with one party too much, they lose viewers.

They need views from “both sides” which is the precise reason why they have to “both sides” everything.

You need at least two axes (plural of “axis”) to describe political ideologies.

“Both sides bad, bit aT leAsT tRuMp iS hOnEst aBoUt iT!”

The Honesty:
“You won’t have to vote anymore”
“Dictator on day one”

My brother runs away from the microwave whenever my parents turn it on… 🤣🤦‍♂️

Did I mention he’s vaccine skeptical?

Step 1: Wear a ski mask
Step 2: Shoplift?
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit?

(Step 3 is getting caught and becoming a prison slave 🙃; So yes “Profit” just not for you)

I mean, you could just give your self a limit.

Add a “Iteration 1” to the first message, and the 2nd iteration of you should append the message with “Iteration 2” and so on…

If you still get warned of death in Iteration 500, then maybe then you can give up.

At least try to survive for a few timelines.

“Um… 😅”

whispers into phone

“The agents of the (Lemmy) organization have found me, I must prepare to make the ultimate sacrifice. El Psy Congroo”

yeets metal upa out the window

The problem is that I can’t wait for the assassin to make a move in order to learn about them. It’d be a lot easier if I was trying to prevent someone else’s death, but I can’t send a message after my own death, can I?

Quickly program your phone to record a video and send a MMS to yourself if it detects you death.

You set up your phone at a vantage point pointed at you, and just go on live tv, make a scene, wait for the assassin to come. Then they come and kill you, and your phone captures their image, and sends it to your past self. Now you got a face to research.

What’s that? The assassin wore a mask? NOOOOO! 🙃➰️💀

What time travel rules?

Steins;Gate Rules, but without Reading Steiner

No, you get to send unlimited number of messages, but the furthest back is at the beginning of this 7 days. You could send it to day 2, day 3, or even exactly at 12:34 on day 4.

Maybe for a reason you have yet to experience in the future.

Perhaps a future leader?

Pehaps a future criminal?

Who knows 🤷‍♂️